That could also mean that lying about your motivations helps becoming a millionaire.
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No problem. The difference is that WalMart sells stuff (and that there's no WalMart here in Uruguay, BTW).
Free market can handle giant corporations that sell stuff. There is always place for another one to sell cheaper/better stuff. The problems come when a company takes over the world by selling bytes. Bytes have potentially zero marginal cost, so the free market rules do not apply.
The amount of stuff in the world is finite, but the amount of potential bytes is infinite. The risk of a corporation making so much money out of bytes is that they could theorethically make enough money to buy *all* the stuff there is, effectively owning *everything*, especially now that almost all the world supports capitalism, and everything is for sale. If a traditional company has so much power, the free market can make it better, or at least regulate it, but I don't think it would work in an scenario in the style of "MS taking over the world".
If you force your software into every desk computer, and then fail to patch it, you are screwing people, they lose money, and services they paid for. It is really evial, especially considering there are people running critical systems on Windows, because of great marketing that convinces them they can.
Will somebody PLEASE think of the children? Oral sex kills millions of potential children a day!! Plus, it might hurt some adults if performed incorrectly.
Your conclusion might be accurate, but your reasoning is quite flawed. Computer generated images need to come a long way in order to get as real as filmed stuff, but the fact that you can see fake stuff in Spiderman is just their CG artists fault. Cinema has developed many techniques to hide the tricks, so there might be a possibility to produce "perfect" movies right now, provided that they put enough creativity and work at it. The opposite is true, you can look fake even in real life (e.g. I like lara croft's CG-tits from Tomb Raider, the movie, much better than the one Pamela Anderson carries) .
Right now you could use a big RAID of small chips, to get rid of your hdd (like a DIMM filled with flash) . Using some intelligence at the file system level, limited writing cycles might not be an issue.
So, solid state storage, hundreds of Gb, is feasible right now, although not cheap.
Parent (and GGGreat parent) highlight the fact that this is not important, unless it is. Many press releases claim great storage capacities, that's not new. Something new would be some chip maker making some actual chips. If press releases had actual value, we would already have holodecks.
aaaaaaallright When I said That my last Intel processor was my 286, it was because I had a 386AMD, a K5/90, a K6-2/300, a Duron/950 and a Duron/1100, and no problems whatsoever, but some people think it's still funny to say that AMD has heat issues, and I am one of them.
The idea of antropomorphic robots is good, if we understand that the only common interface all our tecno-stuff shares is the human body, so it is a good interface for a thinking gadget, to replace the work of a man, in any way needed.
The barber exchanges his work for money. You asked him to cut your hair, promising to pay him, and you didn't. You stole him his pay, which you had promised to pay, in a verbal contract.
Subway musicians share their work in hope for money. They sing, you listen, and if you want, you pay them, if you don't you don't need to pay.
I think the analogy with musicians would actually be easier, because they actually use a similar model to promote their work.
The problem here is that analogies are not valid, ever. IP theft is a term with a very diffuse meaning. Copyright infringement is better for this case.
The thing here is that the guy who make the movies make them, hoping that people go to the movies, and pay. But you don't ask them to work for you, so there is no contract between you and them, so there is no money (a phisical thing) to be stolen from them, as in the barber case. There is the issue of copyright, where you might be infringing that law that deprives you of the right of unauthorized copying of many works, but you didn't steal anything, because you ca only steal phisical things. IP is a very fuzzy term, and leads to confusion. Copyrighted works would be better, in this case, and copyright law says nothing about stealing. There is no "IP" law, at least not that I know of.
You are using the definition that uses "steal a kiss" as an example. That's a figure of speech. You don't "steal a kiss", you kiss someone without her previous approval, or you force yourself on someone, but either way, it has nothing to do with stealing. Stealing is taking property away from its rightful owner. Copying a DVD is Copyright Infringement. A cow is a big mammal with four legs that provides milk and delicious meat. You can say that an apple is a cow, but an apple is still an apple, and not a cow, and unauthorized copying of a DVD is copyright infringement and not stealing.
I like to make some helper scripts for print formating, server mirroring, backups, and such, and share them with people I know. I made them for myself. If they are not like me, tough luck. I could be paid to develop a nice interface, designed for dummies I just won't do it for free. (Much better, I could spend some days figuring out an interface that was good, effective and efficient for every user, which is achievable but takes time) Free software doesn't mean "software for free". That wich is implemented can be shared "for free", but if you need something custom made, someone has to pay for it (SuSE, Redhat, IBM, some guy codes it, because he thinks its a cool project). If some company wants to sell Free Software desktops, they might need to develop some custom software, it's ok.
A combustion engine doesn't stop burning gas just because you are not pushing the pedal. If you had a manual, and stepped on the clutch, at least you could say that the car is not being pushed forward by the engine. That would be rather dangerous, because you have much less control over the car when the engine is disengaged. I believe there is such a function in automatics, but that would be dangerous, anyway, you would have no control.
That's strange. The ones that are educated already use free software when they can, not only because of technical reasons, but also for coolness, money, and legal issues. The ones that are not educated need an easier way to keep secure, and that is firefox/thunderbird. It's nonsense that email, which is a text application, can give you viruses. HTML too. You don't need to be educated, you need a program that doesn't force you to make decisions you don't want/know how to to make, in order to keep secure
The rest of the world doesn't share the anti-Microsoft, almost religious viewpoint that Linux is the better operating system just because it's open source and UNIX-like. They'll want actual reasons to switch. At most, they'll just use Firefox on Windows if you try to bring up IE insecurities.
Not religious, _ethical_. It's not ethical, from the viewpoint of the user to buy proprietary software, because it refrains you from being a good person, and sharing the stuff you paid for with your friends/neighbours/family/everybody . That is a good point against using Windows, and in favor of Wine. For me, it's much more important to have the freedom to be a good person than to run the latest and greatest and easiest software. My parents taught me that sharing is good, and not sharing is bad. (yes, I share CDs too, I just pay for the ones I care for, and concerts) I am not going to change my morals just because of a stupid license. I might, if that were the only way I could do my job, but it isn't.
There is enough food for everybody already, as it is, and there is no need for GMOs.
Poverty related issues are not caused by the lack of resources, but because of the inefficient way that they are distributed.
Biodiversity insures species against world wide plagues and diseases. GMOs, combined with good marketing and stupid patent & copyright laws lead to monoculture (and that is a biiig step back) and less resistance to disasters. If everybody plants the same extremely enhanced crops, they will share the same weaknesses. And that if you don't take into account the fact that you are putting the future of the food of the entire world in the hands of a handful of corporations.
and no special config, lets you run remote X applications, without reading X manual pages if you need to "su" in the remote system, just use "sux" and you can still run remote X apps
Yes, but the "Funny" modded troll said he was trying to get sound to work in _KDE_. That means artsd and a single stereo OSS.
Having two soundcards makes it impossible to "just work", you should configure at least which want you like the most, and disable the onboard card, if you want to save CPU cycles. For more difficult configurations, there's/etc/rc.d/rc.modules,/etc/esd.conf.
If you can edit text files, have someone do it, buy the machine pre-configured, pay support. Here is where the difference between free and Free comes up. If somebody said it would be free as in beer, they were lying to you, it might, but there's no guarantee, because price is not the issue.
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That could also mean that lying about your motivations helps becoming a millionaire.
No problem. The difference is that WalMart sells stuff (and that there's no WalMart here in Uruguay, BTW).
Free market can handle giant corporations that sell stuff. There is always place for another one to sell cheaper/better stuff. The problems come when a company takes over the world by selling bytes. Bytes have potentially zero marginal cost, so the free market rules do not apply.
The amount of stuff in the world is finite, but the amount of potential bytes is infinite. The risk of a corporation making so much money out of bytes is that they could theorethically make enough money to buy *all* the stuff there is, effectively owning *everything*, especially now that almost all the world supports capitalism, and everything is for sale. If a traditional company has so much power, the free market can make it better, or at least regulate it, but I don't think it would work in an scenario in the style of "MS taking over the world".
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Your statement prevents you from reviewing what you just wrote, you know?
If you force your software into every desk computer, and then fail to patch it, you are screwing people, they lose money, and services they paid for.
It is really evial, especially considering there are people running critical systems on Windows, because of great marketing that convinces them they can.
If you do criminal stuff, you are a criminal. If they have a monopoly based on illegalities, they have an illegal monopoly.
Will somebody PLEASE think of the children?
Oral sex kills millions of potential children a day!!
Plus, it might hurt some adults if performed incorrectly.
Your conclusion might be accurate, but your reasoning is quite flawed.
Computer generated images need to come a long way in order to get as real as filmed stuff, but the fact that you can see fake stuff in Spiderman is just their CG artists fault. Cinema has developed many techniques to hide the tricks, so there might be a possibility to produce "perfect" movies right now, provided that they put enough creativity and work at it.
The opposite is true, you can look fake even in real life (e.g. I like lara croft's CG-tits from Tomb Raider, the movie, much better than the one Pamela Anderson carries) .
Right now you could use a big RAID of small chips, to get rid of your hdd (like a DIMM filled with flash) . Using some intelligence at the file system level, limited writing cycles might not be an issue.
So, solid state storage, hundreds of Gb, is feasible right now, although not cheap.
Parent (and GGGreat parent) highlight the fact that this is not important, unless it is. Many press releases claim great storage capacities, that's not new. Something new would be some chip maker making some actual chips.
If press releases had actual value, we would already have holodecks.
Screen might help you, it lets you put several sessions into one. Learning new shortcuts might be a bitch, but it can be very helpful.
I believe you failed to notice that the book _will_ be marketed in the US.
aaaaaaallright
When I said That my last Intel processor was my 286, it was because I had a 386AMD, a K5/90, a K6-2/300, a Duron/950 and a Duron/1100, and no problems whatsoever, but some people think it's still funny to say that AMD has heat issues, and I am one of them.
You are giving away your password wourself in your sig!!
Wait... It's encrypted, sorry I didn't notice.
But, I'll reply to the troll, anyway.
The idea of antropomorphic robots is good, if we understand that the only common interface all our tecno-stuff shares is the human body, so it is a good interface for a thinking gadget, to replace the work of a man, in any way needed.
You might have some trouble keeping cool while running AMD.
(BTW, my last Intel was my 286!)
Bad example.
The barber exchanges his work for money. You asked him to cut your hair, promising to pay him, and you didn't. You stole him his pay, which you had promised to pay, in a verbal contract.
Subway musicians share their work in hope for money. They sing, you listen, and if you want, you pay them, if you don't you don't need to pay.
I think the analogy with musicians would actually be easier, because they actually use a similar model to promote their work.
The problem here is that analogies are not valid, ever. IP theft is a term with a very diffuse meaning. Copyright infringement is better for this case.
The thing here is that the guy who make the movies make them, hoping that people go to the movies, and pay. But you don't ask them to work for you, so there is no contract between you and them, so there is no money (a phisical thing) to be stolen from them, as in the barber case.
There is the issue of copyright, where you might be infringing that law that deprives you of the right of unauthorized copying of many works, but you didn't steal anything, because you ca only steal phisical things. IP is a very fuzzy term, and leads to confusion.
Copyrighted works would be better, in this case, and copyright law says nothing about stealing.
There is no "IP" law, at least not that I know of.
You are using the definition that uses "steal a kiss" as an example. That's a figure of speech. You don't "steal a kiss", you kiss someone without her previous approval, or you force yourself on someone, but either way, it has nothing to do with stealing.
Stealing is taking property away from its rightful owner. Copying a DVD is Copyright Infringement. A cow is a big mammal with four legs that provides milk and delicious meat. You can say that an apple is a cow, but an apple is still an apple, and not a cow, and unauthorized copying of a DVD is copyright infringement and not stealing.
I like to make some helper scripts for print formating, server mirroring, backups, and such, and share them with people I know.
I made them for myself. If they are not like me, tough luck. I could be paid to develop a nice interface, designed for dummies I just won't do it for free. (Much better, I could spend some days figuring out an interface that was good, effective and efficient for every user, which is achievable but takes time)
Free software doesn't mean "software for free". That wich is implemented can be shared "for free", but if you need something custom made, someone has to pay for it (SuSE, Redhat, IBM, some guy codes it, because he thinks its a cool project).
If some company wants to sell Free Software desktops, they might need to develop some custom software, it's ok.
A combustion engine doesn't stop burning gas just because you are not pushing the pedal.
If you had a manual, and stepped on the clutch, at least you could say that the car is not being pushed forward by the engine. That would be rather dangerous, because you have much less control over the car when the engine is disengaged. I believe there is such a function in automatics, but that would be dangerous, anyway, you would have no control.
That's strange.
The ones that are educated already use free software when they can, not only because of technical reasons, but also for coolness, money, and legal issues.
The ones that are not educated need an easier way to keep secure, and that is firefox/thunderbird. It's nonsense that email, which is a text application, can give you viruses. HTML too. You don't need to be educated, you need a program that doesn't force you to make decisions you don't want/know how to to make, in order to keep secure
The rest of the world doesn't share the anti-Microsoft, almost religious viewpoint that Linux is the better operating system just because it's open source and UNIX-like. They'll want actual reasons to switch. At most, they'll just use Firefox on Windows if you try to bring up IE insecurities.
Not religious, _ethical_.
It's not ethical, from the viewpoint of the user to buy proprietary software, because it refrains you from being a good person, and sharing the stuff you paid for with your friends/neighbours/family/everybody . That is a good point against using Windows, and in favor of Wine. For me, it's much more important to have the freedom to be a good person than to run the latest and greatest and easiest software.
My parents taught me that sharing is good, and not sharing is bad. (yes, I share CDs too, I just pay for the ones I care for, and concerts) I am not going to change my morals just because of a stupid license. I might, if that were the only way I could do my job, but it isn't.
Some report with some numbers on food.
There is enough food for everybody already, as it is, and there is no need for GMOs.
Poverty related issues are not caused by the lack of resources, but because of the inefficient way that they are distributed.
Biodiversity insures species against world wide plagues and diseases. GMOs, combined with good marketing and stupid patent & copyright laws lead to monoculture (and that is a biiig step back) and less resistance to disasters. If everybody plants the same extremely enhanced crops, they will share the same weaknesses. And that if you don't take into account the fact that you are putting the future of the food of the entire world in the hands of a handful of corporations.
ssh -X user@remotehost.domain
and no special config, lets you run remote X applications, without reading X manual pages
if you need to "su" in the remote system, just use "sux" and you can still run remote X apps
Yes, but the "Funny" modded troll said he was trying to get sound to work in _KDE_. That means artsd and a single stereo OSS.
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules, /etc/esd.conf.
Having two soundcards makes it impossible to "just work", you should configure at least which want you like the most, and disable the onboard card, if you want to save CPU cycles. For more difficult configurations, there's
If you can edit text files, have someone do it, buy the machine pre-configured, pay support. Here is where the difference between free and Free comes up. If somebody said it would be free as in beer, they were lying to you, it might, but there's no guarantee, because price is not the issue.